Clothes-wringer.



Patented Nov. I9, I901.

T. HEFFEMAN. CLOTHES WRINGER.

(Application filed Nov. 26, 1900.)

(No Model.)'

M12266 6 e d [WI/61721072 uj v PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS .IIEFFEMAN, OF AUBURN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE AMERICAN\VRINGER COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF RHODE ISLAND. V

CLOTH ES-WRING ER.

SPECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 686,898, dated November19, 1901.

' Application filed November 26, 1900. Serial lie. 37,723. (No model.)

To a whom, it may concern:

Be it'known that I, THOMAS I'IEFFEMAN, a

citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Auburn,State of New York, ha e 5 invented certain newand u 4e1'ui Improvementsin ClothesWVringers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention consists in certain new at- .tachments for aclothes-wringer whereby the KO drip from the wringer-rolls is preventedfrom running down the frame of the machine to the floor, devices beingprovided [or directing the drip to the tub.

In the drawings herewith, in which similar .1 5 lettersindicate likeparts in the several views, Figure 1 is a side view of a wringer containing my improvements. Fig. 2 is an end view, partly in section, upon theline a y of Fig. 1. Figs. 3, 4, and 5 are enlarged detail views of 2othe tilting table and drip-troughs forming features of my invention.

A wringer-frame composed of side pieces or uprights A, top cross-bar B,and front and back boards is provided of usual form for z machines ofthis class, the sidepieces A being slotted to receive the usualwringerrol1s. (Not shown.) A tilting table D is supported at either endin head-blocks F, supported by pivots, or, as shown, by pivcf;-

o rod (Z, mounted in the uprights A, said head blocks 1 having channelsto receive the ends of the table D and-being provided on their uppersurfaces with integral wings or flanges e, said headbloeks havingslotted bearings ,5 on their under sides, through which the pivotrod dpasses. From this construction it will be seen that the said table D maybe moved unto the positions shown by the solid and V dotted lines inFig. 2, the slotte l bearings d 0 in the head-blocks F permittin saidtable'D to be. reversed to direct thedrip to either. side of thewringer, the table taking itsbear mg against the under side of theboards 0 when in its two positions. The water falling on this tiltingtable D is prevented from running off from its ends by the upwardly-pjecting wings or flanges'c of the head-blocks F. Drip troughs orconductors G, preferably of malleable iron and galvanized, are securedto the uprights A, preferably by being provided with lateral wings.whichenter slots or kerfs in said uprights, as more clearly shown in Fig. 4,said drip-conductors being located above and overhanging the ends of thetilting table D and extending inwardly over the flanges e on thehead-blocks F of said table, said conductors being thus adapted to.convey the drip from the said uprights A onto said table, whence itwill run intg the tub.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure byLetters Pat- Gilt-7 V In a wringer, the combination with a.wringer-frame, of a drip-receiving table D,

head-blocks F in which said tableD is mounted, pivotal supports for saidhead-blocks,

slotted hearings on the under side of said head-blocks to engage saidpivotal supports, whereby said table D may be tilted and slid laterallyin either direction to direct the drip from the rolls to either side orthe wriuger, integral drip-flanges e rising from the upper surfaces ofsaid head-blocks F to prevent the escape of drip at the ends of thetable D, and drip-troughs G secured to the wringer-frame above, the saidtable D, said drip troughs overhanging and projecting beyond thevertical drip-flanges c on the head-blocks F to direct the drip from thewringer-frame to the tableDi- Signed at Aubnrn,.New York, this 24th dayof November, A. D. 1900.

. THOMAS .HEFFEMAN.

Witnesses:

H. D. PARSELL, A. G. BEARDSLEY, J r.

It is hereby certified that the name of the patentee in Letters Patent N0. 686,898, g'rmited November 19, 1901, for an improvement inClothes-Wringers, was erroneously printed f Themas Hefieman, whereas thesaid name should have been printed Signed, copntersignefi andseeled'this 2151: (m of January, A. 15., 1902.

[SEAL]. F. CAMPBELL, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, Countersigned:e e

F. I. ALLEN,

Commissioner of Patents.

